Knee Surgery Narrative

One of the most challenging things I have gone through was getting knee surgery earlier this past year. It was a frightening time for both myself and my loved ones. The procedure itself is what I initially feared. I knew the road to recovery would not be an easy one, but I would have never imagined the recovery process would be so emotionally and physically draining. During my sophomore and junior year, I began going to the YMCA nearly everyday with my close friend, CJ. We would occasionally lift weights but the majority of our time was spent playing basketball. Along with other friends, we would walk to the YMCA’s downtown location after school and play until either it was time for us to leave or we were just too tired to continue. This quickly became the highlight of my day. No matter how hard the school day had been, I had going to the court with my friends to look forward to. Unfortunately my source of joy turned into pain. …show more content…
I assumed that this was normal and that I had just played too hard. Soon the soreness became a daily experience, extending to off the court activities. Soreness turned to pain, but I continued to play, only going a few days a week and trying to avoid playing too hard. But the night of my friend Chris’ birthday party we played for hours and I left in more pain than ever before. This is when my mom decided it was time to see an Orthopedic. They did their usual X-rays and checked my mobility and determined I had patellofemoral pain syndrome. After treating this for a while with no success my mom sternly requested that the orthopedic call for a MRI. The scan revealed far more damage in my knee than they ever thought and that surgery would be the best way to fix it. We scheduled the surgery and I went under the knife in March of